Community Development Quotes

The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.

Thomas L. Friedman

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

Idowu Koyenikan

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.